Word of the Day Oct 4 boobook BOO-book, -book, noun 1. a small, reddish-brown spotted owl, Ninox boobook, native to Australia and New Zealand. Quotes: It has large, staring eyes that are brilliant yellow, not greenish-toned as in Southern Boobook, which usually displays obvious dark markings (rather like black-eye bruises) around the eyes that are absent in the larger Barking Owl. -- Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg, Birds of Australia, 2014 Nosepegs dreaming was the mopoke, the boobook owl I had heard in the night. -- Roger Deakin, Wildwood, 2007 Origin: Boobook comes from Dharuk, a now-extinct Australian aboriginal language. The word is said to be imitative of the sound the bird makes.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:31:53 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015